Business Insider: A Conversation With Linus Torvalds, Who Built The World's Most Robust Operating System And Gave It Away For Free

By Linux_Foundation - June 7, 2014 - 6:30pm

Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones... I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

In 1991, 22-year old Finnish computer programmer Linus Torvalds released his own operating system. Opening with the message "Hello everybody out there," (a now-iconic phrase among Linux fans), he posted the source code online. People alternately contributed their abilities to improve it where they could or went off to build their own things with it.